Teaching

Awards

Research grants from IUPUI, IU Bloomington, and IU School of Liberal Arts (2000-2010)
Service Learning Assistant Scholarships from the Center for Service and Learning, IUPUI (2003–2013)
Grant from the Lingnan Foundation for joint study-abroad program of IUPUI and SYSU (2012)
IUPUI Favorite Professors by Intercollegiate Athletics Department (2008, 2011)
Nominee, the Susan Buck Sutton Award for Study Abroad (2013)

Publications

Articles in journals: Youth and Society, Sociological Focus, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Child Development, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Rural Sociology

Service

Member, Editorial Board of Marriage and Family Review
Member, Membership Committee of American Society of Criminology